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Often animals are killed to provide a specific tissue or organ for experimental use. The remainder of the animal is unwanted and disposed of. Archiving and sharing of this material instead can help to reduce the number of animals culled by optimising the use of tissues and organs between scientists with...

The winner of the 2015 London Design Museum's Design of the Year award has been announced, awarded to a team from Harvard who are looking at 'revolutionary' organs-on-chips.
The team, led by Professor Don Ingber and Dr Dan Dongeun Huh, are well known to the NC3Rs, having won our 3Rs prize in 2012 for their...

We have developed a new online resource aimed at improving the welfare of laboratory macaques. Improving welfare will in turn improve the quality of the research carried out using these animals.
The Macaque Website is a free resource for everyone who works with, or is interested in, laboratory macaques,...

Two of our CRACK IT Challenges are being showcased on a webinar on hosted by Inside Scientific- “24/7 monitoring of group-housed rodents in their true IVC racked home cage environment for safety pharmacology and phenotyping applications.”

A new approach to computer modelling has won the NC3Rs 2014 3Rs Prize. The work has been recognised for its potential to reduce the number of animals used in research, particularly in the safety assessment of new drugs.

Industry, small and medium sized enterprises and academia are coming together, through the NC3Rs CRACK IT programme, to solve three challenges faced by the pharmaceutical and chemical industries; all of which should reduce the number of animals used in scientific research.

Our new e-learning resource on “Laboratory Animal Anaesthesia for Minor Procedures” is now available.
The online resource, developed by Professor Paul Flecknell and his team at Newcastle University and funded by the NC3Rs, aims to ensure best practice in anaesthesia for minor procedures, by providing readily...

We have invested £900,000 to support studentship projects at eight UK institutions. Each of the projects will investigate ways to either replace the use of animals in research, reduce the number of animals used or improve laboratory animal welfare.